Welcome to the lunatic-python wiki!

Details

This is a fork of Lunatic Python, which can be found on the 'net at http://labix.org/lunatic-python.

Sadly, Lunatic Python is very much outdated and won't work with either a current Python or Lua.

This is an updated version of lunatic-python that works with Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 and Lua 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. I tried contacting the original author of Lunatic Python, but got no response.

Installing

On Ubuntu

To install, you will need to have the Python and Lua development libraries on your system. If you do, use the recommended methods (pip, easy-install, etc) to install lunatic-python.

This version has been modified to compile under Ubuntu. I haven't tested it under other distributions, your mileage may vary. Something similar to:

sudo apt-get install build-essential liblua5.2-0 liblua5.2-0-dbg liblua5.2-dev lua5.2 lua-cjson python3-dev python3 python3-pip
pip3 install pipenv
pipenv install lunatic-python-universal

On OS X High Sierra

in shell:

brew install openssl libmemcached pkg-config libffi pyenv pipenv lua

in ~/.bash_profile:

if hash pyenv 2>/dev/null; then
    eval "$(pyenv init -)"
    export PIPENV_PYTHON=$(pyenv root)/shims/python
fi

in a new shell

env PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared" pyenv install 3.5.5 # we need enable shared for this library not to segfault on import
pyenv global 3.5.5
pip install --upgrade pip
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/.pyenv/versions/3.5.5/lib/pkgconfig # install direnv to auto-reset this when you get into this directory
pip install pipenv
pipenv install lunatic-python-universal

Try it out

pipenv shell
python

import lua
lg = lua.globals()
lua.execute("x = {1, 2, 3, foo = {4, 5}}")
lg.x[1], lg.x[2], lg.x[3], lg.x['foo'][1], lg.x['foo'][2]